Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22
SANTA ANA.
The Opening of the Hotel
Brunswick.
A VERY BRILLIANT AFFAIR.
"Eyes that Look Love to Eyes
that Look Again''-"Fair
WOmen," Etc.

Dear reader, or gentle reader-.take
your choice of epithets - as the
old novelists used to write-which
ever you are, have you ever seen
Santa Ana? Have you ever spent a
day, q week or q month driving along
the smooth, level roads with their
trim and verdant hedge-rows OF that
fascinating town? Have you walked
along her nice sidewalks, under the
shade of those spreading and graceful
pepper trees, or where those lordly
eucalyptus trees align the thorough
fares? Have you looked out over
those broad acres of luxuriant vine
yards, or upon those quite as broad
and thrifty orchards of all sorts
of fruit trees? And if you
have not, be not misled by these rural
pictures here portrayed to think that
the scene is altogether bucolic in its
nature. Suburban in the best accep-
tation of the term is rather the style
at Santa Ana, and at those other gems
in this trinity OF rural beauty, the
closely situated, and equally fair sis
ters OF this town, embowered Tustin
City, and progressive Orange. They
all belong together, and when you
call on one of the cities so dear to the
hearts of the goddesses Flora and Po-
mona, be sure to ask if the other
two of the trio may be seen. Subur-
ban is the style, and the highest re-
suit of that branch of art is reached
in all one be-.olds.
At Santa Ana, there is besides her
rich vineyards and orchards the neu-
cleus OF a very promising business.
The town is now solid in fine brick
blocks, and wherever you look there
are more of the same sort being
erected. Two railroads come here
with daily passenger trains, and more
are coming. There are street car lines,
three weekly papers and one daily.
There are fine stores of various sorts
with finely selected stocks of goods
and there are churches OF all denomi-
nations, handsome edifices which look
as if the people had faith in the lesson
their Heaven-directed spires teach
and there are schools as good as any
in the land. Santa Ana is a progress
sive place with good society, good
morals, quiet orderly habits, soil as
rich as the sun shines on, plenty of
water for irrigating, fine climate and
in word every element of growth and
prosperity town can have.
THE HOTEL BRUNRwICK.
But this is not at all what had in
tended to do. The purpose was not
to tell you anything about Santa Ana.
If you had been there no words could
equal the picture in your mind; and
if you had not been there no words
could paint the picture as it is. The
purpose in mind was to tell you that
daily trains leave the Southern Pacific
depots, morning and evening direct for
Santa Ana; and to suggest that not
later than tomorrow you should get a
ticket and proceed at once to see that
spot. You will then see her
lovely cottages embowered in hello
trope, roses, lilies of the valley, and
flowers of thousand heavenly hues,
and of a thousand of the sweetest of
earthly odor.
And when you get to Santa Ana,
before you start out to do the town, go
to the Hotel Brunswick and tell mine
host, Ward and his charming wife, and
the two beautiful little olive branches,
that you have come to see Santa Ana
and that you want to be well treated
while you stay-therefore you have
come to the Hotel Brunswick, which
the HERALD reporter, and all the
beg their pardon-all the
commercial travellers who pass this
way, say is the best hotel, and the
best kept hotel in all these parts,
far or near. And the report
ers and their wandering compan-
ions, the drummers, are just the
people who know what good spread
is made of, and how it should be set.
Their virdict is quite unanimous that
the Brunswick is the best hetel they
find.
But how many thousand pities you
could not all have gone there last
Tuesday. Why? Well, l will tell
YOU later on. l went and inspected
the hotel from cellar to garret, and l
did it before dinner. do not think
could have seen it all in q post
prandial condition.
The Hotel Brunswick is new
thing under the sun. Santa Ana had
no good hotel until the other day,
when the Santa Ana Land and I'm
provement Company-thatis the name
OF it?-took up the project OF building
a hotel. The best site in the town
was chosen, and about 500, 900 spent
in putting up solid brick edifice OF
seventy-fve or eighty rooms.
When the hotel was built the ques-
ton was who shall keep it -? Keeping
a hotel is just like managing a rail-
road or editing paper during a po-
litical campaign. Every fool thinks
he can do it : andRbout one wise man
out of a thousand is judged to have
achieved success on trial and the
public Judge us all more fairly than
we do ourselves. After looking all
over the ground, the owners
of the Brunswick, decided to let it to
Mr.. Ward. He is no novice at the
business. He kept the Indio hotel for
years. He was connected with the
Depot hotel and with the Nadeau in
this city. There is no use in wasting
words on Ward; the public all know
him, he is an old story, and all the
world say the reporters and drummers
are right about his keeping a hotel;
Now to the hotel. The builders did
all that could be required of them in
the edifce. Mr.. Ward has furnished
it in most becoming manner.
THE GAS FIXTURES, ETC.
Tuesday night at the housewarming
it was brilliant as section Of little
heaven. From the entrance door to
the very apex the whole building was
ablaze with gas jets in the most ar
tistic setting. When these fittings
were needed Mr.. H. w. Littell, whose